The Curse of Skeleton Munroe

Category: the Reel

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 036: SETAP

    (Action v1 017, 1939)

    Setap is fun because she’s one of the few old lady super-villains who actually is an old lady, rather than a gangster in drag. She’s also pretty happy about her plan to steal youth from one of Zatara’s pals, until he reverses the process and blows up her city.

    Setap is also an early example of a reformed villain, as she shows up a few issues later (presumably after stealing youth off someone else, as she is young again) and enlists Zatara’s help in finding her ancestral home, Atlantis

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 026: THE MONK

    (Detective v1 031-032, 1939)

    The only reason this guy’s minor is that Batman shoots him dead in 1939. I know he’s made a few reappearances over the years but mostly they’re retellings of that first story. Also I guess they’re calling him the Mad Monk now? Weird.

    My point is that Batman deserves a vampire nemesis so they should BRING HIM BACK.

    ADDENDUM: it’s very strange to me that in Batman: Red Rain it’s Dracula who vampires Batman and not the Monk, an established vampiric Bat-villain.